Chap.3.Se6t.3 Looking utJto 1efm. BooidV,Pan.3 633 blood only that can wafh us deane ; Oh remember this ! God will not pardon without fatisfaction by the blood of Chrift. . And furely this makes Chrifts death fo defirable; Oh my :jim1os ajfiict me, (cries m;lny a one) o.h I am laath[ome in mine ~wn eye{, much moreinGods, JimlyGoduoffendedwuh mydulnefJe, Jlothnef[r, 11nd my thoufand imperfections; I am all the day long en.t•ll:'- gte'dwith t~~ Jinne, and tha~ Jinne, and the other J!nne; but let th1s, contrite fpmt look on Chnfts death, and therem he may findc: all finne is par.donc:d , fee here what an argument is put into thy mouth from thefe fufferings ofChrifr, well mayeft thou fay, 0 Lord I Am #lllworthy, /Jut it io jufl and right that Chriff ob- . taine what he died for; 0 pardon my jinnes for his deaths fakJ,and Eph 1 ' 1 J)t~. for hu precioUJ bloodsfake. 6. There: is in it reconciliation and peace with God ; In Chrift refm;e who fometimn were afar off, dre made nigh bJ the blood of (hrif.l,Jor he u our pe11ce, who hath made both one, And h11th brok!n down the middle wall of partion between m,- Rom ~ · 1 0• When we were enemies, we were reconciled unto God by the death of 6 . his Sonnr.- thtt hemight reconcile both (viz. 'fews and Gentiles) Eph. t. ' ' 1mto G~a in one body by the Cro.ffe. -And having made peau: Colt . :o. through the blood of his Cro.ffe, by him to reconcile all things to himfelf. This ~ertainly fhould admirably fupport the drooping foul ; it may be thou cryeft, my jinnes have made a breach betwi.t't God 11nd my (oul; I have wArred againft heaven, and now (jod warreJ ag11inft me ; 1111d oh what oddes? if the Lord be angry, . yea, but a little ; whf(,t will become of mJ poore foul? is a little jfNbble a~le t6 contend with the confuming fire? how then fhsuld I contend with God? but come now, and look on Chrifrs death as the meanes and meritorious c'aufe of r,econciliation , and thou canft not but fay , 0 thu death u defirable! When God the Father looks at a finner in the bloody glaffe ofChrifr, then faith God, Oh now fury and wrath is not iu me; I have no more qullrrel or controv er(ie-with thu foul; feeing Chrijl hath f ujfereJ, it u enough , I h11vc as much 11s my juftice can demand, my frownes are now turned into [mi(es,and mJ rod of iron into a Scepter ofgrace. Why this is it that makes Chrifts death and blood fo defirablc: to tbe foul ; what {hall 'facob fo rejoyce in feeing E(au·s face altered _to him? fhallhe fay to Efau,I have ((en thy face, as the face ofGod ? how much rather may the humble and be lee:- , - Mmmm ving I ., ,-, .. ;
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